Web-based Real-time 3D Video Communication System for Reality Teleconferencing

  • Ko, Jung-Hwan (3D Display Research Center/ National Research Lab. of 3D Media, School of Electronic Eng., Kwangwoon University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Kyu (3D Display Research Center/ National Research Lab. of 3D Media, School of Electronic Eng., Kwangwoon University) ;
  • Hwang, Dong-Chun (3D Display Research Center/ National Research Lab. of 3D Media, School of Electronic Eng., Kwangwoon University) ;
  • Kim, Eun-Soo (3D Display Research Center/ National Research Lab. of 3D Media, School of Electronic Eng., Kwangwoon University)
  • Published : 2005.07.19

Abstract

In this paper, a new multi-view 3D video communication system for real-time Reality teleconferencing application is proposed by usin gthe IEEE 1394 digital cameras, Intel Xeon server computer system and Microsoft's DirectShow programming library and its performance is analyzed in terms of image-grabbing frame rate and number of views. The captured two-view image data is compressed by extraction of disparity data between them and transmitted to another client system through the communication network, in which multi-view could be synthesized with this received 2-view data using the intermediate view reconstruction technique and displayed on the multi-view 3D display system. From some experimental results, it is found that the proposed system can display 16-view 3D images with a gray of 8bits and a frame rate of 15fps.

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